Little Johnny And The Horse With The Broken Leg

Little Johhny showed up late for school one day and the teacher asked why.

The johhny explained that a hole had been dug in the road for some waterworks maintenance and a horse had fallen in and hurt itself badly amongst other injuries it had a broken leg, the police were called and they had to shoot the horse.

The teacher, engrossed in the story, without thinking asked, 'Did they shoot the horse in the the hole?